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 ====== Is History important for ME? ... ======
-Tuesday, Oct 26, 2019. Let us talk about history and its relationship
+Tuesday, Nov 26, 2019. Let us talk about history and its relationship
 to my own life. What is my involvement? Is history really important?
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 list the possible answers.
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 **  Importance of History ... **
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 not thinking about the past and the future.
+Humans have abilities which go beyond those of animals. That does not
+mean that our abilities would not have some type of reflection in animal
+life. Animals also act. Animals also feel. Animals also can think to some
+extend. But all these abilities are much further developed in humans.
+And with human abilities comes the interest in history. We have questions.
+We ask where we came from. Even if we live here and today, there is
+still the need for more!
+Is history important for my life? Is it important above the mere fact
+that we are interested in history?
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+But how can you separate our interest from our actions? We need to understand
+development of things, to think about actions. We want to do. We want
+to control. We want to plan. The basis of plans is the history of plans.
-** Bible and History ... **
+Learning needs history! We cannot learn something without knowing how
+it was before. Memory. Even emotions. They are all linked to the past.
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+** The Bible ... **
+The biblical books range far back into the past. They start with history
+in the Old Testament. They tell the story of creation. They start with
+history in the New Testament. They tell the story of Jesus, where he came
+from. The biblical books know that we are curious, and that we need history
+to determine our position today.
+But let us come back to the question, why history might be important
+for me today.
+The New Testament teaches that the story about Jesus is important since
+Jesus lives today. He is there, here and now. You could talk to him. He
+is there by his spirit, the holy spirit.
+The biblical books are not historical in the sense that the things they
+talk about are dead now. They are not dead, they are alive! The experiences
+of the people of the Old Testament are alive, since God is alive and the
+holy spirit is alive.
+It is good to ask why history is important. To me, it became very important
+when I started to understand that the experiences of the people in the past
+are my own experiences. They can help me today, since the situation is the
+same. God is the same. And God still wants to link up with humans.
+The history becomes very interesting when it is the history of someone
+you love. Or when a good friend appears there, acting and talking. This is
+world history to me now. Christ Jesus has been there. His spirit talked
+to the church fathers, to the people of Israel thousands of years ago. And
+he is still talking today, through his spirit. These are far reaching
+claims. They are not my claims, these are the biblical claims. They
+coincide with Christian experience ever since. There is a lot to explore!
 (Roland Potthast)